Example sentences of "'s [noun sg] [vb pp] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Core 's defence relied on the claim that the materials were for artistic purposes , a defence recognised in British law . |
| 2 | AY 's defence centred around the claim that it only owed a duty of care to Alkar , as its auditor , and not to WG , even though it also audited the WG group accounts . |
| 3 | The image of the Buddha 's foot known as the ‘ Tri-Pada ’ shows on each of the toes the Swastika . |
| 4 | Since the profession 's livelihood depended on the public having confidence in its members ' integrity and professional ability , he warned , those who did break the rules would be dealt with swiftly , effectively and fairly . |
| 5 | Here we have a repetition of the childhood in which the parent 's weakness contributed to the unconscious need for punishment . |
| 6 | Pleming said the government 's case rested on the plan to take topsoil from Oxleas Wood to nearby Woodlands Farm and plant trees there . |
| 7 | This is arguably the fundamental point made by a famous set of attempted proofs of God 's existence associated with the medieval theologian , Aquinas . |
| 8 | He did n't add that controlling the Seneca was child 's play compared to the brute force of the Ferrari F40 . |
| 9 | But in fact Holt C.J. 's decision related to the escape of filth and his formulation of principle was limited to that and to cattle-trespass ; it was not nearly so sweeping as the rule expressed in Rylands v. Fletcher , which was reached by methods extremely characteristic of judicial development of the law — the creation of new law behind a screen of analogies drawn from existing law . |
| 10 | Thus an expert 's decision obtained after the limitation period will not be enforceable by court action : see Chapter 12 . |
| 11 | The Supreme Court action was taken in response to a petition against the government 's decision submitted by the Bar Association . |
| 12 | Lord Cholmondeley 's correspondent referred to the Smiths as ‘ very good Workmen ’ , and when Francis died in 1738 Sir Edmund Isham of Lamport , Northamptonshire , lamented the loss of ‘ our honest Builder Mr. Smith of Warwick ’ . |
| 13 | All four versions include a skipper 's cabin accessed from the upper deck only and sandwiched between the anchor well and the forward bulkhead of the owner 's cabin . |
| 14 | Further exhibits depict the opening of the West , Whaling ( with a Captain 's Cabin reproduced from the last of the great Yankee whalers ) , Textiles ( with a fine collection of quilts and hooked rugs ) , Pewter , Glass and Silver . |
| 15 | Chief Superintendent Wycliffe 's driver pulled into the car park , which had been closed to the public , and joined a line of police vehicles . |
| 16 | A tragic number of those best equipped to explain the Council 's teaching retired from the clergy in the later 1960s and the 1970s , and thereafter were disqualified from teaching as a ministry in the Church , though there is no moral justification for a general judgement that such persons become unworthy to teach . |
| 17 | In these circumstances it is not possible to summarize a person 's opportunity set by the measure of expected lifetime income . |
| 18 | Langbaurgh School , in Sulby Avenue , has been chosen to take part in the BBC Newsround Election , the world 's biggest ever children 's election organised by the BBC in association with the Hansard Society and supported by a national newspaper . |
| 19 | The selected schools were taking part in the world 's biggest children 's election organised by the BBC in association with the Hansard Society . |
| 20 | Red-headed England 's Glory spilled across the bare boards of the floor . |
| 21 | Seb 's look returned to the farmer . |
| 22 | But Whitaker 's luck changed in the four rider Horsemaster final when he again looked likely to finish as a runner-up . |
| 23 | His father 's jaw dropped at the sight of his son 's face . |
| 24 | He proposed that a plan for the area should be considered first , which could show the Horse Guards and the Admiralty removed , and St James 's Park extended to the river . |
| 25 | A staggering 20,000 enquiries followed Pamela 's debut broadcast on the subject of Alar , which emerged as a potential carcinogen in an independent UK survey on pesticide technology ; and enquiries are still flooding in . |
| 26 | Word of the Everqueen 's loss spread through the land and the hearts of the Elves were filled with despair . |
| 27 | John Rowlands 's search ended with the discovery of his surviving grandfather , a ‘ severe and sour old man ’ who lived with two of Rowlands 's aunts in an old Welsh farmhouse . |
| 28 | Anthony Marriott and Alistair Foot 's script called for the clerk to be a ‘ heavy ’ type , but Crawford was successful in changing the underling to a meek , nervous sort . |
| 29 | The fathers of four and the mother of one of the 54 children who were born in and had leukaemia or non-Hodgkin 's lymphoma diagnosed in the study area had been employed in the nuclear industry before their child was diagnosed ( relative risk 2.2 , 95% confidence interval 0.6 to 6.9 ) . |
| 30 | She spun to find a little bald woman — Chesarynth 's mind seized upon the woman 's finger-socket as though it were the badge of some sisterhood — and said , ‘ Yes . ’ |